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Minecraft Interview

[Nov 25, 2010, 1:53 pm ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

Lord of Minecraft on GamesIndustry.biz (registration required) is a quick conversation with Markus "Notch" Persson about Minecraft, his successful sandbox game. One answer they highlight separately is his explanation of why he's been so public about the boatloads of money the game has been earning, reportedly as much as $350,000 a day. "Personally I like sharing that information, because I'm generally an open guy," Persson told them. "But it feels a bit sometimes like it's a bragging page." And while he is willing to consider selling DLC for the game, he rejects the idea of courting investors: "I'd rather have [the games] just be self-funded, because we can run the company we want. If we fail with a game it's because we failed it, not because we had to rush it to meet a deadline."

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Re: Minecraft Interview

Nov 26, 2010, 09:42

WyldKat

CommunistHamster wrote on Nov 26, 2010, 08:05: "Alpha" isn't an excuse for notch anymore, since he's marketing and selling it as a full game. It isn't an excuse, it literally IS an alpha build. Nor is it sold as a complete game, that's a falsehood, there are disclaimers all over the place before you buy that it's an alpha and it will have bugs. Why is it so hard for people to understand this?

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Comment [quote="WyldKat"Nov 26, 2010, 09:42][quote="CommunistHamster"Nov 26, 2010, 08:05]"Alpha" isn't an excuse for notch anymore, since he's marketing and selling it as a full game. [/quote] It isn't an excuse, it literally IS an alpha build. Nor is it sold as a complete game, that's a falsehood, there are disclaimers all over the place before you buy that it's an alpha and it will have bugs. Why is it so hard for people to understand this? [/quote]

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